Academic and Social Problem Solving

• Develop and refine organizational skills including organization of class materials, as well as organization of written and expressive language
• Improve problem solving abilities
• Strengthen self-advocacy skills
• Improve ability to initiate and maintain conversations with teachers and peers
• Monitor body language and eye contact while speaking

Sample Methods and Strategies to Achieve Objectives

General

• Apply a thematic learning matrix to build students’ fund of information
• Provide models and demonstrations of tasks
• Provide direct instruction on understanding the link between effort and outcome
• Provide a daily review of all topics
• Use of visual-spatial tools like sketching and storyboarding to maintain awareness of sequence
• Allow sufficient time for students to process all auditory/verbal information
• Model how to breakdown all assignments into manageable portions and scaffold realistic time management plans
• Highlight all imperative words within a set of directions
• Encourage organization of information be category, main idea or sequence
• Create visual or verbal clusters of information, using devices like color-coding, and mnemonics, etc.

Written Expression

• Provide extensive modeling of the entire process from pre-writing to the final edit
• Explore a variety of organizing strategies, including semantic webs, concept maps, and linear outlines

Academic and Social Problem Solving

• Encourage participation in real-world problem solving activities
• Practice breaking down problems, identifying possible solutions, analyzing these solutions, examine pros and cons and then determine the best solution
• Teach and practice navigating through common social situations in society

WINSTON PREPARATORY SCHOOLMISSION STATEMENT Facilitate the independence and meaningful participation of students with specific learning
disorders through a Continuous Feedback System that develops skill acquisition and the Qualities of a Sustainable and Independent Learner. WPS also
seeks to influence the field of education with research and implementation models that achieve these ends, in this way.

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